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Personal Attendant for Disability Inclusion Programme Officer

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Contract type: Consultant
Duty Station: Tashkent
Level: Consultancy
Location: Uzbekistan
Categories: Gender Development

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. 

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. 

And we never give up. 

For every child, a chance.

Purpose of Activity/Assignment:
 
UNICEF is committed to promote equity and inclusion for all and to comply with the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Article 9 of the CRPD1 recognizes the importance of accessibility, specifically referring to accessibility of buildings, roads, transportation and other indoor and outdoor facilities, including schools, housing, medical facilities and workplaces. The Sustainable Development Goals have explicit references to children and adults with disabilities across the SDG framework, in particular to accessibility of the built environment in goals on Education and on Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements.
 
While committed to promoting equity and inclusion at the global level, UNICEF has also made efforts to build an inclusive working environment. In 2011, UNICEF issued an Executive Directive on Disability (CF/EXD/2011-005) which articulated the organization’s commitment to employment of persons with disabilities and protecting the rights of staff in terms of opportunities, remuneration and safe working environment; ensuring non-discrimination during recruitment and selection, training and career advancement as well as retention; providing reasonable accommodation for employment; ensuring confidentiality of information shared with the Organization; and training and awareness raising on disability for all staff.
 
The Division of Human resources created a Reasonable Accommodation Fund, a dedicated budget line which provides staff with reasonable accommodation in terms of access to buildings, flexible working arrangement, special work equipment of travel arrangements and additional time allocations when required. An HR procedure (PROCEDURE/DHR/2020/009) and reasonable accommodation guide ensure employees with disabilities can request the supports they need to work productively.
 
Employee with disability at UNICEF may need a short-term or on-going personal attendant to support him to work at their full capacity.
 
PURPOSE
The personal attendant will work closely with, and directly under the supervision of Jurabek Kakharov, Disability Inclusion Programme Officer, who has visual disability, for the delivery of outputs of the work plan of this employee. In particular, the consultant will support UNICEF’s work on:
  • Supporting inter-agency coordination and UNICEF’s leadership on disability inclusion.
  • Supporting UNICEF’s programmes on gender mainstreaming through targeted interventions to support girls and women with disabilities.
  • Ensuring disability inclusion architecture is enhanced through contribution in strategic planning and reporting.

Scope of Work:

The scope of work is the following:

  1. Support the mobility/orientation of the person during internal, external visits and field visits including foreign countries (setting up an enabling environment for the UNICEF employee they are supporting).
  2. To support the organization of data collection, knowledge documentation and drafting of reports.
  3. To support programme activities such as setting up meetings, conducting learning sessions, organizing interviews, events and focus group meetings and following up on agreed action points with relevant partners.
  4. Taking notes during internal meetings and external visits as instructed by UNICEF employee.
  5. Formatting documents and support with inserting comments/ feedback, graphics and pictures.
  6. Support with reading documents, describing graphics and illustrations which are not accessible to screen reader
    software, preparing HIS, articles, posts, providing inputs to newsletters, summarizing the content of documents
  7. Supporting to review and fill up forms related to agreements and contracts, preparing HIS, inputs to newsletters
  8. Facilitate the employee’s collaboration with other Sections, Divisions, and internal and external partners on
    accessibility and assistive technology.

Deliverables/Outputs - Timeline

  1. UNICEF employee is supported with mobility during day-to-day travel to the meetings, and field visits, including international travel - e.g. 5 days a month
  2. All documents are carefully edited, proofread, summarized and finalized, so they’re clear, accurate, and professional - e.g. 5 days a month
  3. The texts requested by the Supervisor are compiled, converted to the relevant format, edited, with tracked changes, in Microsoft Word for feedback and approval - e.g. 2 days a month
  4. Content for draft presentations is developed, PowerPoint Presentations created and demonstrated are clear and visually appealing to effectively communicate key points and support the overall goals of meetings and events - e.g. 3 days a month
  5. Assistance provided in organizing and coordinating workshops, meetings, and events, making sure everything runs smoothly, and follow-up actions are taken with the right people -e.g. 6 days a month

Total e.g. 21 days a month

Travel is required.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have… 

  • At least bachelor’s degree in social sciences, law or a related technical field.
  • Experience working or supporting persons with disabilities/low vision is an asset.
  • Experience in the UN system is an asset.
  • Be able to accompany on a trip abroad as well as in the regions of Uzbekistan.
  • Good editing, writing and computer skills.
  • Fluency in English and Russian or Uzbek.

For every Child, you demonstrate… 

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS). 

 To view our competency framework, please visit  here. 

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic background, and persons with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization. To create a more inclusive workplace, UNICEF offers paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements. Click here to learn more about flexible work arrangements, well-being, and benefits.

According to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), persons with disabilities include those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual, or sensory impairments which, in interaction with various barriers, may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others. In its Disability Inclusion Policy and Strategy 2022-2030, UNICEF has committed to increase the number of employees with disabilities by 2030. At UNICEF, we provide reasonable accommodation for work-related support requirements of candidates and employees with disabilities. Also, UNICEF has launched a Global Accessibility Helpdesk to strengthen physical and digital accessibility. If you are an applicant with a disability who needs digital accessibility support in completing the online application, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

Remarks:  

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. 

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws. 

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts. 

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